Do we need an outright ban on hydraulic fracking? Can't it just be safely regulated? And if there is no commercial interest in doing so on those terms, who cares? (View Post)

What's wrong with capital gains tax on primary residence sales? To take an example: Say you bought a home in London for £100k now worth £1m. That's a 900k gain. Now I think a full rate of 28% would b… (View Post)

Collapse in gas prices today. (View Post)

If Iran is providing Russia with serious military hardware might it not be time to bomb some of their military facilities? (View Post)

I'm not sure I agree that they thought that deficits didn't matter. I suspect it was a belief that the tax cuts would in effect pay for themselves through higher growth. Obviously the OBR didn't agre… (View Post)